Quotes of: American-television Keyword

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.

The Sorrows of an American

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

The Sorrows of an American

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

The Sorrows of an American

Webster said, ''Time them skeeters get done with that old man, his French blood will be all gone and he will speak American as good as we do.

Shadow Country

The American army,” said the Prince of Candia, “has the sweet, warm smell of a blond woman.” “You’re very kind,” said Colonel Jack Hamilton.

The Skin

There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris.

Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris

Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?

The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death

I found Americans arrogant, Germans rude, Britishers selfish, Frenchs desperate, Chinese worried and my own nation stupid.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

We need to revitalize the American spirit. People are always asking ‘What would the founding fathers do,’ but I have yet to witness a single séance.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Americans are following a stampede to the financial slaughterhouse. Let us stop following them and go in the other direction.

Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.

Picasso

Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.

The Quiet American

Whew,' he said, 'I'm glad that's over, Thomas. I've been feeling awfully bad about it.' It was only too evident that he no longer did.

The Quiet American

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?

The Quiet American

Americans wouldn’t be in the economic predicament we’re in, if there were no America. So we can all thank our founding fathers for America’s current monetary nightmare.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I like color commentators. Especially red, white, and blue color commentators. As an American I sometimes feel so patriotic I feel British.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence.

This Book Has No Title

Uncle Sam’s not related to me. He’s stuck his dick in the American Pie too many times to be welcome at my family picnics.

This Book Has No Title

A recent survey said that 51% of Americans don't know any evangelicals – even casually.

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

You will generally observe that, of all Americans, your foreign-born citizens are the most patriotic - especially toward the Fourth of July.

White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War

Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad.

On Writing